The escalators at Bank are 15 years old, while those at Canning Town are less than 10 years old. It is pathetic that they are already having to be stripped out and replaced in operations that take months to perform after such a short time in service, but even more pathetic that TfL describe the operation as "investing" in the railway. Now if very premature replacement of items with like-for-like is "investment" then I'm not the finance person I'm paid to be !

The temporary stairs at Bank inserted in the escalatr shaft down to the DLR are exceptionally steep and narrow, and hazardous at peak times (when platoons of staff have to be deployed to prevent a crush developing on them). I have big feet and they hardly fit on the small treads used. If they have passed any form of risk assessment then it just shows what a fiction such analyses are.